Finding the evidence
"Standing on the shoulders of giants" is a phrase well known to researchers, and anyone embarking on a piece of research will want to know what has already been done. The most obvious starting point is to conduct a literature search, and full RCN members can get help with this. Whilst the finding the evidence section of our website provides a signposting service to various databases of completed research, including the recently launched NHS Evidence portal, the latest news section lists recently published reports, articles and research.
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NHS Evidence - eyes on evidence December 2012
Published: 09 Jan 2013
NHS Evidence - providing easy access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care who takes decisions about treatments or the use of resources. Reports in the December 2012 issue of the monthly bulletin include: chlamydia screening; bullying and self-harm in young adolescents; prevention of uti; type 2 diabetes.
NIHR bite sized research summaries for busy healthcare practitioners and managers
Published: 07 Jan 2013
On many occasions staff just want the headline 'need to know' information about a piece of research. BITEs (Brokering Innovation Through Evidence), originated and piloted by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care provide an accessible overview of the most important implications and conclusions of a piece of research.
NICE - published guidance December 2012
Published: 12 Dec 2012
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) develops guidance using the expertise of the NHS and the wider healthcare community including NHS staff, health care professionals, patients and carers, industry and the academic world. New guidance this month (December 2012) includes ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage; Hepatitis B and C; melanoma; leukaemia.
NICE - published guidance November 2012
Published: 27 Nov 2012
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) develops guidance using the expertise of the NHS and the wider healthcare community including NHS staff, health care professionals, patients and carers, industry and the academic world. New guidance this month (November 2012) includes depth of anaesthesia monitors (E-Entropy, BIS and Narcotrend) and drug use disorders.
NHS Evidence - eyes on evidence - November 2012
Published: 19 Nov 2012
NHS Evidence - providing easy access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care who takes decisions about treatments or the use of resources. Reports in the November 2012 issue of the monthly bulletin include: prenatal exposure to chemotherapy; blood pressure readings between arms; tinnitus; self-monitoring warfarin therapy.
NICE - published guidance October 2012
Published: 24 Oct 2012
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) develops guidance using the expertise of the NHS and the wider healthcare community including NHS staff, health care professionals, patients and carers, industry and the academic world. New guidance this month (October 2012) includes psoriasis; social and emotional wellbeing - early years; bone metastases from solid tumours; and Crohn's disease.
NHS Evidence - eyes on evidence - September 2012
Published: 27 Sep 2012
NHS Evidence - providing easy access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care who takes decisions about treatments or the use of resources. Reports in the September 2012 issue of the monthly bulletin include: multimorbidity; suicide risk; VTE; carotid intima-media thickness progression.
NICE - published guidance September 2012
Published: 14 Sep 2012
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) develops guidance using the expertise of the NHS and the wider healthcare community including NHS staff, health care professionals, patients and carers, industry and the academic world. New guidance this month (September 2012) includes Antibiotics for early-onset neonatal infection; Bevacizumab in combination with capecitabine for the first-line treatment of metastatic breast cancer; Lower limb peripheral arterial disease; Mega Soft Patient Return Electrode for use during monopolar electrosurgery; Osteoporosis fragility fracture; SonoVue (sulphur hexafluoride microbubbles) - contrast agent for contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging of the liver; Urinary incontinence in neurological disease.
Free BNF prescribing app launches June 2012
Published: 05 Jul 2012
Health and social care professionals can now access the latest up-to-date prescribing information from the British National Formulary at the touch of a button. Download an app enabling you to browse and search full content from BNF, receive notifications when new editions and updates are available, bookmark content and even choose your preferred reading settings.
NHS Evidence - eyes on evidence - June 2012
Published: 04 Jul 2012
NHS Evidence - providing easy access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care who takes decisions about treatments or the use of resources. Reports in the June 2012 issue of the monthly bulletin include: diagnosis and treatment of first-episode psychosis; mortality risk of antipsychotic treatment in people with dementia; effects of antiplatelet therapy in people with chronic kidney disease; relaxation techniques for pain management in labour; antimuscarinic drugs for urinary incontinence in women.